I have recently migrated my blog from Wordpress to Octopress during this migration I cloned a Git repository and setup my own, forcing me to learn some basic git commands.

Migrating Wordpress to Octopress is no easy task, it took a lot of thought, time & planning but the end result has been well worth it. I now have a fast (static), secure blog without the performance issues experienced with a CMS running on a LAMP stack.

This is the cleanest way of getting the latest Nvidia drivers install on Fedora 17, we also need to disable the default nouveau driver after the installation.

The following MySQL Commands were originally split into several smaller blog posts that I had built up over the years, I have now consolidated the articles into a single post (feel free to link to this resource from your site).

This guide explains step by step how to install Asterisk on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 x86_64. I have also included a video tutorial, if you run Ubuntu server then check out my Ubuntu Asterisk 10 Tutorial.

How To unzip a file on Linux by installing unzip.

How To install dig on CentOS / RHEL 6.

How To install locate on CentOS / RHEL 6.

There are a couple of ways to find the CentOS version from the command line. The most accurate way is to check the installed centos-release rpm another option would be to cat the contents of /etc/redhat-release (not recommended as any application could potentially change the contents of this file).

There is no such thing as CentOS build essential for RHEL or CentOS. However to install the same build packages on CentOS see below.